//how many lives may have been saved if this had been the option from the beginning?//

Not as many as if they'd had reasonable gun control measures from the beginning.

Why are you so radically against solutions which aren't just bandaid solutions?

Toni,

I'm not, long term solutions are fine but I'm interested in hearing from the pundits who have a solution for the next teacher faced by a murdered, or one intent on murder in their school.

It's no good saying ban all guns because that could take five hundred years; what's needed is a quick and certain manner in ending the next attack.

Got any ideas that can be immediately implemented?

"It's no good saying ban all guns because that could take five hundred years;" if you and Charlton Heston had your way it would take a lot longer than that.

Its US gunnies like you who are responsible for the problem in the first place. Now your are offering a short term, simplistic, jackass solution for something you are responsible for. Not only are you offering a useless solution, you are trying to load the responsibility for the problem onto others, teachers.

US gunnies should fess up that they take full responsibility for the carnage in US schools. Everyday that goes by without the necessary strong legislation required to protect their citizens from the demented gunnies, is a day wasted. Soon reduce that 500 years of yours to six months.

Malcolm, an email attachment with the Aussie legislation to The Donald. please! The Donald could have that legislation this morning, have the Congress passing it into law this afternoon. Start gun control measures tomorrow morning at Charlton Heston's house first!

Paul,

Why are you so against a teacher having a fair chance; would it spoil your Green ambulance chasing?

Five hundred years is a fair estimate, for to attempt your solution would mean civil war.

There is only one way that a teacher faced by a murderer could save self and children and that is to be armed with an efficient means of killing the murderer, you may not like it but you ought to have enough guts to support those Legislators in the US who are prepared to give a person on the front line a chance.

Perhaps you could ask Bob Brown (the Green one) for a solution, he was famous for suggesting that Australian front line troops should be taught 'Anger Management' as part of their infantry skills.

Imagine the headline, "TEACHER SHOOTS GUNMAN: Saves Children".

The Greens and Gun Control Australia couldn't get any mileage out of that.

Imagine the headline, "TEACHER SHOOTS SCHOOLCHILDREN" then Shoots Himself. I don't know why you Gunnies haven't gone the whole hog and demanded that the schoolchildren be armed as well.

There is a certain viciousness about someone who could throw a lifebuoy to a drowning person but who would choose not to do so.